I Am the 5-Year-Old Spy Who Kidnapped the Villain - Chapter 211

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【Chapter 211】

“….”

I didn’t know I’d have to consider so many things.

When I couldn’t answer easily, the dwarves lowered their gazes as if they had expected this.

“That’s why we had to give up.”

I could see lingering regret in the dwarves who said this.

Though they said they would serve a new Maein, they seemed to have secretly hoped for Kail’s revival.

The leader dwarf, who had been managing his expression with effort, raised his head again.

“…Maein, there’s no need to be disappointed. Originally, governing natural death is that difficult—”

“I’m ready now.”

But I hadn’t failed to answer because I thought I couldn’t do it.

I was just late in responding because I was planning what to do after going back to the past.

“Send me to the past now.”

If I could just bring Kail back to life, I could do anything.

At my confident words, the dwarf who had been trembling slightly swallowed hard.

“A-Alright. I’ll prepare immediately.”

Then they moved frantically busy.

Shortly after, I stood among them holding their staffs.

“Maein. Please close your eyes and imagine the situation you want to return to. Then you’ll go back to that time period.”

“Yes.”

“The time limit is one week in that time period. You must remember this.”

When I nodded and closed my eyes, I heard rustling sounds around me like drawing on paper.

Soon, a faint light began to appear in my dark vision.

Wondering what it was, I opened my eyes to see purple light spreading around me.

“Then, have a safe trip.”

With the dwarves’ polite farewell, I returned to the past.

* * *

“Do something about this monster!”

“Who released the ability restraint device?! Damn it!”

I seemed to have fallen asleep right after closing my eyes upon hearing the farewell.

As my consciousness faintly returned, I heard people running around and cursing.

When I carefully lifted my eyelids—

“Dandelion, stay right behind me.”

A small boy who looked about 8 years old was blocking my front with both arms raised.

Matted black hair.

Arms and legs with wounds here and there.

And even dirty clothes.

‘…Wait, this child is…’

My surprised eyes widened.

This boy was young Lucas who had been trapped in Ahili’s Circus.

I really had returned to the past.

Looking down at my body, I saw small, plump hands like maple leaves in my vision.

Just like when I was 5 years old.

“Hey, Dandelion!”

Then I snapped to attention at Lucas’s shout.

“Are you okay? If you keep spacing out like this, you’ll die right away! How did you escape, but if we fail this time, you’ll be caged too!”

Well, well, this is the temperament I knew.

Though he became a bit gentler with age, Lucas at this time was completely prickly.

“Ah, I got it. I trust only you, brother!”

I came to my senses and grabbed his shoulder, but suddenly Lucas was startled as if he’d received an electric shock and screamed.

“Who’s your brother! I’m a young master of the Croste Family!”

Ah, right.

At Ahili’s Circus, I called Lucas “young master.”

I quickly changed my words.

“Ah, young master. That’s right, seeing you reminds me of my lost real brother…”

When I made a droopy, sad expression, Lucas seemed flustered and quickly tried to smooth things over with a red face.

“No, what I meant was, it’s not that I felt bad about you calling me brother, it’s just that I’m a young master, no. You’ll definitely be able to find your brother. When I get back into the ducal palace, I’ll definitely ask them to find him…”

That lost brother is you.

Sigh, you innocent little lamb.

When I saw protagonists who regressed to the past in novels, they felt awkward due to cognitive dissonance from seeing younger versions of people around them.

Seeing Lucas fidgeting and watching my reaction, I could understand that feeling.

“Anyway, young master. Let’s focus and escape from here.”

Now wasn’t the time for this.

When I spoke with sparkling eyes, Lucas nodded bewilderedly.

“Y-Yeah.”

What followed was exactly as it had happened in the past.

Lucas defeated people with his incredible ability, and I shot poison needles at those he couldn’t see.

“…I’ll definitely repay this debt!”

When the situation ended, his face turned red like a tomato as he shouted, just the same as before.

‘Seeing him younger after so long, he’s cute.’

Hehe.

I nodded with a motherly smile and began seriously observing the surroundings.

It was probably around this time.

When Lucas got angry, and I, tumbling from that momentum, accidentally discovered Kail.

‘…Over there.’

Sure enough, when I lowered my posture and looked carefully, a faint moan came from under the fallen man.

“Young master! There seems to be a kitten trapped under that man.”

“What? Then we have to save it!”

Lucas, full of justice even then, ran toward the fallen man.

He lifted the fallen man with an ice column just as he had in the past.

Then underneath, a white fluffy ball trembling began to become visible.

It was Kail.

“….”

When I reached out to pick him up, a strange feeling washed over me.

I had saved Kail again.

He who had protected me with his massive back was such a small, pitiful cat when we first met.

‘…This time I’ll protect you.’

After carefully holding him in my arms and closing my eyes briefly, I immediately moved to the next task.

In the previous past, when I asked Lucas to protect the cat, an assailant suddenly tried to stab his back.

Because of that, I threw myself and got stabbed instead of Lucas.

‘But this time I’ll defeat that assailant first.’

Instead of asking Lucas, I immediately watched the surroundings and sure enough, I could see a hidden man stealthily approaching us.

The moment our eyes met—

“Just die, ability user!”

He charged with a sword exactly as in the past.

‘Assailant. This time you won’t be able to hurt anyone.’

Because I’ll defeat you with a poison needle before that!

Whoosh—

When I lightly shot a poison needle, the assailant who had been trembling convulsively collapsed.

“…Huh? What?”

Startled Lucas turned around to look back.

“That guard was trying to harm the young master, so I saved the Duke again.”

“What?”

When I said that and smiled brightly, Lucas’s blue eyes widened like a puppy’s.

And then he blushed again, saying he would definitely repay me, and so on.

‘Brother, it’s okay. Everything will work out this time.’

I grabbed my brother’s wrist as he quacked like a duck and opened the storehouse door.

Then, Nox and Father, who had been searching for us frantically, appeared breathing heavily.

The matter was resolved.

I didn’t die, and Kail was safe.

* * *

When our family returned to the ducal palace, people busily moved around to treat Lucas.

As soon as I got out of the carriage, I expected the butler and maids to welcome me, but they glanced at me and then passed right by to go to Lucas and sob.

‘It was a time when I hadn’t fully gained their trust yet.’

It was a bit disappointing.

At 5 years old, I’m still very young, so pay me some attention!

I thought this while glaring at Mai, who had been cold to me as usual.

But I understood since my status had been unclear at the time.

I first took kitten Kail to the physician and waited until his condition improved.

On the third day.

When I visited the infirmary, Kail was licking his soft fur just like I had seen him do in the past.

My heart pounded with overwhelming emotion.

When I approached him, he tilted his head with an expression that showed he knew nothing.

His innocent purple eyes sparkled in the sunlight.

Until I returned to the past, those purple eyes had belonged to me.

Seeing the purple eyes that had found their rightful owner, I couldn’t help but smile.

I picked him up and told him about the plan I had decided on before asking the dwarf to use his ability.

“…Kail. Now you’re going to the snowy plains.”

“Meow-“

He rubbed his head against my chest.

“I want to stay with you too, but the snowy plains suit you well, Kail.”

I was planning to release Kail into the snowy plains.

After saving him, I had also thought about caring for him at the ducal palace and protecting him from any danger of death.

Because I wanted to make our childhood memories together even happier.

I didn’t want to let go either.

But-

If that happened, the past would repeat itself once again.

He wouldn’t be able to control his magic, and he would leave for the snowy plains to protect me.

‘That means, in the end, the only place where Kail can live freely is the snowy plains.’

“…If in the past you lived only for me, this time you must live for yourself.”

Though my throat felt tight, I faintly raised the corners of my mouth.

Because this was the right thing to do.

I hoped he wouldn’t endure 10 years looking only at me, and wouldn’t choose death because of me.

As someone who loves Kail, I wanted him to live freely this time.

“Understand? Don’t live in hiding like before, but live proudly as a Maein, and when Monster Waves occur, calm the monsters then.”

“Meow-“

Young Kail, who couldn’t possibly understand my words, just kept burrowing into my arms endlessly.

“That’s enough.”

If I delayed any longer, I felt like I would burst into tears.

Wiping away the tears that had gathered with the back of my hand, I held Kail in my arms and left the ducal palace.

For Kail’s new life.

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